On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 Rajesh K. Jha wrote :
HI,
I have been using Red Hat 9 along with Windows 98 for some time now. >It was working perfectly alright. However, my windows part was >showing some problem and I reinstalled the windows98. After >reinstallation, my linux (grub starter) stopped showing. I 'upgraded' >my installation. I got back my grub boot. It starts all the processes >but finally when it comes to starting the actual programme I get a >message like this:
Kernel 2.4.20-8smp on an i686 INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Hi,
Just because the windows OSs are not kind enough to allow you to retain the previous MBR, you dont need to upgrade your installation to get back grub. You can get back the bootloader by a simple grub-install.
For that, you need to use the boot cd of the linux distro. Enter "linux rescue" at the prompt and answer a few simple questions. Then you are dropped to a shell. chroot to /mnt/sysimage and you will have you installation as /. Running "grub-install /dev/hda" (read the info pages on grub for variations and details) will restore your MBR.
Coming back to your spawning problem, there seems to be an issue with upgrading, possibly with glibc (anyone knows about it?). Open /etc/inittab in an editor and change the "id:5:initdefault" line to "id:3:initdefault".
Find the entries for tty4, tty5, tty6 (will be like "4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4" etc) and comment them out. Try rebooting the system now and hopefully you will be seeing a login prompt. The init level will be 3 so you will be in a bash shell. Try starting X and reply back if you have further problems.
Affly, Bhaskar
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